Neale Donald Walsch - Letting Go of Fear - Do you know you have nothing to lose? - Sep 28, 2018

My dear friends...

When I was living as a Street Person, under the open sky and in the weather, I came to deeply understand, experientially, the nature of fear. I also learned how to overcome it. And today I fear very little. This leads to an interesting question: What came first, my loss of fear or the Good Life that I am enjoying? Did the Good Life produce my loss of fear, or did my loss of fear produce the Good Life?

Neale Donald Walsch - The Tool of Tools

My dear friends...
In What God Wants, we are told about "the Tool of Tools," a two-layer mechanism for dealing with life that can change everything in your personal experience overnight.
The Tool of Tools is a two-step process bringing an individual to a place of mastery. It all has to do with how a person handles her or his feelings.
What God Wants tells us that "The first level of mastery is to consciously decide how you choose to feel about a certain thing. The second level of mastery is to consciously decide how you choose to express any feeling you are having, whether you chose that feeling deliberately or not."
The point that What God Wants seeks to make, perhaps more forcefully and more explicitly than any of the other CwG books, is that feelings and emotions are two entirely different things--and that both can be controlled.
Many people--perhaps most--go through their lives believing and experiencing that feelings are things that simply come over them. They are, basically, reactions to the events around us. In the minds of most people, feelings and emotions are pretty much the same thing. What God Wants, however, tells us that a feeling "is simply a thought that you hold about something."

What Is A Miracle? The Future And Our Potential - Neale Donald Walsch

Written by Neale Donald Walsch,
Original at Innerself.com.
Nancy had anticipated this moment — her final child trundling off to conquer the world. What she hadn’t anticipated was the cacophony of emotions sweeping over her, and the many questions swarming around in her thoughts. Is Joanie ready to be on her own?
Perhaps more poignantly, Am I ready to be on my own?
Nancy replayed every happy and not-so-happy memory from Joanie’s growing up. Well, she sighed, it’s too late for recriminations now. What’s done is done. Still, she felt herself filling with regret. She took a deep breath.

The Miracles Around Us: As Within, So Without

Turning off the highway onto the quiet, woodsy drive that led to the school, she should have been feeling peacefully serene, like the countryside itself. But no. Nancy experienced the inner turmoil that, at a moment like this, only a mother could fully understand.

Neale Donald Walsch - What if, we could...- March 20, 2015

My dear friends...

A few days ago I found myself in an airport.

There were a few of us in our traveling party, and at the airport we were talking about age...and how fast the years go by.  It all came up because there was a perfectly adorable little girl in line in front of us -- she couldn't have been more than two-and-a-half or three -- and everybody in the area was totally, completely, and utterly charmed by her. There were smiles all around as she went about the business of being a free and beautiful child of God.

I wondered, why can't we all be like that? Why can't we all be free children of God -- and act like it -- all during the day? Well, of course, we can. The question is, 'why don't we?'  I think that we're afraid. We're afraid of what people might think, and we may be even more afraid of what we might do.

Ever think about that? How would you behave if you thought you could get away with anything, if you thought you would get a "pass" from everyone around you because you were just so innocent and so cute? What is "innocence," anyway? And what is "cuteness"?

Neale Donald Walsch - How do we speak “as God”? -

How do we speak “as God”?

My dear friends...

I remember that a few days after Communion with God -- a book written entirely from God's point of view in a first-person voice -- hit the bookstores, reporters began calling me for interviews, and many of them led with the same question:

How can you claim to be speaking in the first person voice of God? Isn't that just a bit presumptuous?

It's a fair question. While I am not the first person to have produced such a book (far from it, in fact), inquiring minds still want to know: how can I -- or for that matter, anyone -- dare to place words in God's mouth in this way?

The first thing I answer when asked this question is that I am not placing words in God's mouth. God is placing words in mine.

Furthermore, God is doing the same thing with all of us. I am not the only person on the planet speaking God's words.   All of us are in Communion with God all of the time.

Neale Donald Walsch – Embrace What You Have Discovered – 13 October 2013

My dear friends…

Last week in this space we spoke about how the opinions and observations of us offered by others can “run” our life, actually creating, in a way, our experience of ourselves. I talked about how this happened to me…and about how, finally, I broke out of that trap through deep personal exploration.
I had gathered much from my explorations. I gathered much from all those books, retreats, religions, seminars, and sacred interactions with others that I have spoken of here in weeks past. But even then I was just not able to hold onto very much of what I was discovering and creating about myself, and to make it my sustaining reality, largely because of who I would have to make wrong if I did.

A Lifetime-To-Lifetime Process - a message from Neale Donald Walsch Saturday, 17 November, 2012 (posted 31 May, 2013)

My dear friends...

Last week in this space we began a discussion of the difference between being a ”seeker” of The Holy Experience and being an “explorer” of it. Continuing on that topic...

Being an explorer of the full experience and knowing of life’s ultimate reality can often separate us from our family, friends, and peers, who wonder why we have not accepted the answers that they have found or accepted, and why we are not experiencing what they are experiencing.

They may even make us “wrong” for being in a place of mind and spirit other than the place where they reside, and rather than honoring us for the bravery of our exploration, they may warn us against it, or even ridicule us for undertaking it.